DepEd issues guidelines on school-based feeding program implementation
By: ZEAN VELLE S. TRADIO
Teacher III
Obrero Elementary School
Central Butuan District II
The Department of Education (DepEd), through the Bureau of Learner Support Services-School Health Division (BLSS-SHD), issues the Supplemental Guidelines on the Implementation of the School- Based Feeding Program (SBFP) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to continue to the improvement of classroom attendance and school performance of target beneficiaries to more than 85% per annum, and encourage learners to go to school every day.
For FY 2019, SBFP covers all undernourished Kindergarten to Grade 6 learners in all public elementary schools.
It shall provide feeding to learners for at least 120 feeding days and improve the children’s health and nutrition values and behavior.
The program is aimed to provide feeding to learners, prioritizing the severely wasted and wasted; improve the nutritional status of the beneficiaries at the end of at least 120 feeding days; Ensure 100% deworming of target beneficiaries prior to the feeding activity; Conduct group daily hand washing and tooth brushing activities as stipulated in DepEd Order No. 10, s. 2016, to impart development of positive health-promoting values and behaviors; Promote health and nutrition information and awareness among target beneficiaries through the K to 12 Curriculum and its alternative modalities of education; and Encourage Gulayan sa Paaralan Program and backyard vegetable gardening to augment the feeding program and to complement the nutrition and poverty-reduction initiatives of the Government. ###
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